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EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS)

The EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) is the official title of the European
Union's carbon emissions cap-and-trade scheme.

First launched in 2005, the scheme is designed to cap emissions from the
bloc's most polluting businesses, impose a price on carbon and create a market
for trading pollution permits.

Under the cap-and-trade mechanism, EU member states allocate or auction
emission allowances to more than 10,000 organisations across the region, which
currently operate mainly in the energy and other heavy industry sectors.

Members of the scheme may then either purchase additional allowances from
others if they generate more emissions than permitted or sell on a portion of
their allowance if they produce less, providing companies with a financial
incentive to cut emissions. They are also obliged to monitor and report on their
carbon emission levels on an annual basis.

The EU initiative is the largest multi-national emissions trading scheme in
the world and is a major pillar of the EU's climate policy.

The scheme has been the subject of fierce debate. Advocates of the scheme
have argued that it has proved effective at curbing emissions and driving
investment in clean technology, while critics maintain that the caps on
emissions have consistently been set too high and as a result the market has
been undermined by a glut of emission allowances that has kept the carbon price
too low.

Some business groups have also argued that cost burden on European heacy
industry has undermined its international competitiveness.